https://youtu.be/-5JF9Gq5tL4Now is the winter of our discontentMade glorious summer by this sun of YorkAnd all the clouds that lower'd upon our houseIn the deep bosom of the ocean buriedNow are our brows bound with victorious wreathsOur bruised arms hung up for monumentsOur stern alarums changed to merry meetingsOur dreadful marches to delightful measuresGrim-visag'd war hath smoothed his wrinkled frontAnd now, instead of mounting barbed steedsTo fright the souls of fearful adversariesHe capers nimbly in a lady's chamberTo the lascivious pleasing of a luteBut I, that am not shap'd for sportive tricksNor made to court an amourous looking-glassI, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majestyTo strut before a wanton, ambling nymphI, that am curtailed of this fair proportionCheated of feature by dissembling natureDeform'd, unfinished, sent before my timeInto this breathing world, scarce half made upAnd that so lamely and unfashionableThat dogs bark at me as I halt by themWhy, love forswore me in my mother's womb:And, for I should not deal in her soft laws,She did corrupt frail nature with some bribe,To shrink mine arm up like a wither'd shrub;To make an envious mountain on my back,To shape my legs of an unequal size;To disproportion me in every part,Like to a chaos, or an unlick'd bear-whelpThat carries no impression like the dam.While, I, in this weak piping time of peace,Have no delight to pass away the time.Unless to spy my shadow in the sunAnd descant on mine own deformityThen, since this earth affords no joy to me,But to command, to cheque, to o'erbearSuch as are of better person than myself,I'll make my heaven to dream upon the crown,And, whiles I live, to account this world but hell,Until this mis-shaped trunk that bears this headBe round impaled with a glorious crown.But yet I know not how to get the crown,
For many lives stand between me and home:And I,–like one lost in a thorny wood,That rends the thorns and is rent with the thornsSeeking a way and straying from the way;Not knowing how to find the open air,But toiling desperately to find it out,–Torment myself to catch the English crown:And from that torment I will free myself,Or hew my way out with a bloody axe.Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile,And cry 'Content' to that which grieves my heart,And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,And frame my face to all occasions.I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall;I'll play the orator as well as Nestor,Deceive more slily than Ulysses could,And, like a Sinon, take another Troy.I can add colours to the chameleon,Change shapes with Proteus for advantages,And set the murderous Machiavel to school.Can I do this, and cannot get a crown?Tut, were it farther off, I'll pluck it down.
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